Farmers from five local government areas in Enugu State have joined their counterparts in Anambra, Benue, Ebonyi, Niger, Ogun and Taraba states to benefit from the federal government efforts at fighting food insecurity by promoting dry season farming in Nigeria. They were recently presented with farm implements and seedlings worth N40 million. The federal government…
If you are the type who indulges in eating between meals, and your favourite is that snack you can readily grab on the road, you must watch what you eat from now on. This is because there are suspicions that some of the people who sell snacks, particularly along the road, most especially in traffic,…
Senator Abubakar Kyari, Minister for Agriculture and Food Security is the minister for the season. His office is the one stop place for most visitors to Abuja, especially state governors. The reason is the emphasis placed on agriculture and food production by the administration of President Bola Tinubu. Governors are either visiting the minister to…
Four genetically modified TELA maize varieties have been endorsed by the federal government in Nigeria. The varieties which have been approved for commercialisation are insect resistant and drought tolerant varieties. That is the position of the federal government now to improve maize yield in the country. The approval was granted by the National Committee on…
The focus on agriculture under this dispensation is not limited to food items alone. Part of it is also geared towards bringing back that era when Nigeria was a known big producer of cocoa in the world. The development now is that just as some states in the country are revving up the effort in…
The hope that food production will increase in 2024, giving impetus to the goal of targeting zero hunger in the near future, appears to be coming to reality by the day. This is because the decision by the federal government to undertake massive production of food items is being keyed into by the state governments,…
The budgetary allocation for the school feeding programme is a further demonstration by the administration of Bola Tinubu that it is a lover of children and education. This was stated by Dr. Yetunde Adeniji, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to President Bola Tinubu on School Feeding at an event in Abuja. She said that by…
Those who have been praying for a reprieve in the flying inflation in the food sector may have to apply more energy on that spiritual exercise. This is because there are indications that rather than abate the cost of food will continue to soar in the new year. That is the result of the survey…
While federal legislators from some parts of the country are said to have been given palliatives by the federal government, which they expect to give to their constituents, federal legislators from Kwara State have said that they are yet to receive their own. This was stated by the Kwara State’s National Assembly caucus has said…
The worrying escalation of the cost of food in Nigeria is not peculiar to the country. That is stated in the latest report by the World Bank in its Food Security Update. Other countries most hit by food inflation include countries in Africa, North America and Latin America. According to the report, aside from the…
